Soft wood preservatives

[quintain]

What is today's affordable preservative that will soak into the wood for soft wood used on garden gates.
I seem to remember using creosote but I think that has been banned a lot of years ago.
I want to fill a bucket and stand the gate parts in it for a couple of days and then paint the preservative all over the remaining surfaces before fitting and gluing all parts together.
I will then use a dark brown coloured paint/preservative to make it all look good.

Regards
Richard

 

[eribaMotters]

I always used Cuprinol 5 star if going for a non painted surface. If the surfaces were being painted it was green Cuprinol followed by oil based aluminium primer then whatever top coat system you wanted.

Colin

 

[Phil Pascoe]

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Time will tell but I've not had a problem with any Everbuild stuff.

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[Phil Pascoe]

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[Gant]

Or try decking oil. I’ve used it with success on an allotment gate that still looks like new after 2 years. It’s only thin stuff, like candle wax dissolved in petrol, you slap it on, it’s absorbed, then the petrol evaporates leaving the wax embedded in the wood.